"In an international city of more than eight million souls, the series" – The Real Housewives of New York City – "documents the lives of five white socialites who juggle Hamptons estates and charity balls." [NYT]
Ubiquitous cover girl Lindsay Lohan is recording a Kylie Minogue-like album. [WWD]
Salma Hayak birthed a daughter but had Read More
Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard thinks the World Trade Center might have been destroyed because it was too expensive to re-wire the building for class-A tenants. (PageSix.com)
An example of the kind of freedom satellite radio affords Howard Stern: His half-hour rant calling former sidekick Stuttering John a "no-talent ingrate." (PageSix.com)
Your neighbor and ours, Sean "P. Read More
Nicole Richie has been offered the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway. [Us]
Us Weekly's excerpted interview in which Barack Obama declined to discuss his underwear preference received the second highest number of page views for one story ever, the first being new of Heath Ledger's death. [WWD]
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A paparazzo that sued an Australian paper for defamation after it accused him of harassing Nicole Kidman lost his case. Among other things, he tried to bug Kidman's house. [NYT] Will Ferrell pulled Tom Brokaw onstage at Radio City during the final night of his Funny or Die tour to involve him Read More
Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch and all its furnishings will be put up for public auction March 19 unless the pop star pays the tens of millions he owes on the property. [NYT] Marc Anthony's former wife, Daynara Torres, is writing a book on their marriage. Anthony left her for new mom Jennifer Read More
Looks like Nicole Kidman will grace a fall cover of Vogue, which was shot by Annie Leibovitz in a town near Sydney, Australia. [WWD] Just spotted at the Colette boutique in Paris: party gal/model Cory Kennedy, who “love[s] Paris for its fashion.” [T] Donald Rumsfeld was spotted admiring the lovely flowers Read More
Baird Jones, gossip reporter and Webster Hall curator, died in his Greenwich Village apartment on Thursday night at the age of 53. [NYDN]
All about actress Charlize Theron, who has “her feet firmly planted on the ground.” [T] At Oscar parties, celebs like Sean Penn and Rocco DiSpirito showed up with Read More
Jennifer Lopez had twins this morning – a girl and a boy. [NYT] Everyone who attended Ashton Kutcher's 30th birthday bash was exposed to hepatitis A. That would include wife Demi Moore, Kate Hudson and Madonna. [P6] French Vogue's Carine Roitfeld said New York magazine's profile on her misinterpreted her words Read More
Andre Benjamin (a.k.a. Outkast’s Andre 3000) may not be so set on finding an East Village place after all; he recently toured a penthouse loft on West 13th Street. [P6] For many women searching for that perfect wedding dress, less is definitely more. Sayonara, Cinderella. [NYT] Elizabeth Hurley Read More
Savoring what is fast becoming the gastronomical awakening of the Upper West Side, Times foodie Frank Bruni gives the hood’s Dovetail three stars. [NYT] Jennifer Lopez, who is pregnant with twins, has checked into her private room at a Long Island hospital. [P6] Asked by a reporter how his daughter Jenna’s Read More
Last night, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughter, Rumer, 19, was reminded of her age by the staff at L.A. nightspot Villa, so she had to turn right around. [Perez]
Giorgio Armani wrote Times fashion scribe Cathy Horyn a letter banning her from his show in Milan on Monday because she “belittled” his friends Read More
At newyorksocialdiary.com, David Patrick Columbia digests his personal relationships with a long list of American presidents.At last week’s Tribeca Ball, Andre Balazs beat Padma Lakshmi in a bidding war for a matching diamond earring and necklace set; he paid $20,000. [P6] Look at Lindsay Lohan recreate Marilyn Monroe’s last nude photo Read More
For Jimmy Kimmel’s birthday, his girlfriend, Sarah Silverman, and Matt Damon starred in a music video called “I’m [Bleep]ing Matt Damon”; Mr. Kimmel is retaliating with his own star-studded, catchy clip: “I’m [Bleep]ing Ben Affleck.” [P6] Oscar nominee Tilda Swinton switches between two lovers—German artist Sandro Kopp, 29, and the father of her Read More
When an Us Weekly reporter tried to speak with Scarlett Johansson after her Today show appearance, the actress snapped: “You have got to be kidding me after that [plastic surgery] cover you did.” [Gatecrasher]
The hot new fragrance for women can’t be bottled—it just sorta happens. [NYT]
Times fashion writer Cathy Horyn couldn’t Read More
Model and muse Agyness Deyn used her 25th birthday party at Don Hill’s in Soho as an opportunity to fling chunks of cake at partygoers. [P6] At a party for Peter Som on Monday night, Lauren Davis-Santo Domingo, who had just returned from her honeymoon, told Vogue pal Plum Sykes that she keeps Read More
